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Henri Breuil - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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A Biography of the Anthropologist Abbe Henri Breuil ... Henri Breuil was born in Mortain, France in 1877. During his more than eighty years of life, he pursued his interests and encouraged others to share in his appreciation for art.
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Henri Breuil was known as the ‘priest of palaeontology’ and was best known for his research work on primitive French cave art. ... Abbe Henri Breuil did tend to romanticise his conclusions.
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Henri-Édouard-Prosper Breuil often referred to as Abbé Breuil (February 28, 1877 - August 14, 1961), was a French archaeologist and paleontologist, famous for his studies of prehistoric cave art, such as that discovered at Altamira and Lascaux.
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Henri Édouard Prosper Breuil was a cleric by profession, but archaeologist and paleontologist by destiny. Although he was a catholic priest and stayed a priest untill he died, he never practised his profession.
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H. Breuil has gone almost 40 years ago but each book or article on prehistoric art in every language mentions his works. Henry Edward Prosper Breuil was born in Mortain (Normandie) in 1877. From his childhood he was fond of natural sciences and prehistoric antiquities.
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Breuil had the supreme good fortune, as a young man with a talent for drawing animals, to make the acquaintance of Edouard Piette and Emile Cartailhac, two of France's greatest prehistorians, who needed help with the study and illustration of Paleolithic portable ... Bibliography and More Information about Henri Breuil...
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Related Category: Archaeology: Biographies ... He copied and published hundreds of examples of rock carvings and paintings from Europe and Africa and advanced the first well-informed interpretations of the significance of prehistoric art. His principal work is Four Hundred Centuries of Cave Art (tr. 1952). ... See biography by A.
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